[gobolinux-users] xorg 7.3 macbook freeze

[Jonas Karlsson]

On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:17:36 +0200, Michael Homer <gobo-users-dufus at wotfun.com> wrote:

> On 10/11/07, Jonas Karlsson <jonka750 at student.liu.se> wrote:
>> On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:45:03 +0200, Isaac Dupree <isaacdupree at charter.net> wrote:
>>
>> > Carlo Calica wrote:
>> >> The log right after the freeze would be most useful.
>> >
>> > I wonder... that might be difficult if I can't get the system to sync
>> > writes to disk before force-shutting-down (maybe I should look into
>> > enabling/learning that linux-kernel SysRq key...).. Do you know if this
>> > is a concern or if there are other ways to deal with it?
>> >
>> >
>> > Anyway I'll try stuff with 7.3 again when I have time
>> >
>> Having experimented some more with Xorg I can more or less confirm that
>> it's a DBus issue. It looks like the issue is gone with DBus 1.1.x, so if
>> you're running DBus 1.0.x or earlier you can try to upgrade it and see if
>> that solves it, without having to recompile Xorg.
> I have the same issue, with DBus 1.1.2 and Xorg 7.3-r4, which was
> built after that DBus, as was KDE-Base (i.e. kdm). The end of kdm.log
> is:
> process 3526: arguments to dbus_connection_send_with_reply_and_block()
> were incorrect, assertion "(error) == NULL || !dbus_error_is_set
> ((error))" failed in file dbus-connection.c line 3254.
> This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.
>   D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
>
> Starting X with WindowMaker or twm from the console works, but the
> same freeze occurs when you exit it by any means (ctrl-alt-backspace
> or choosing exit from the menu). Ctrl-Alt-F1 & Ctrl-C doesn't have the
> same effect, though. When I do that, I get this in Xorg.0.log:
> Backtrace:
> 0: X(xf86SigHandler+0x9c) [0x80c565c]
> 1: /System/Links/Libraries/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xd8) [0xb7c777c8]
> 2: X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0xb5) [0x806ded1]
>
> Fatal server error:
> Caught signal 11.  Server aborting
>
> I'm not sure what that means, though. It doesn't appear when it's
> started from kdm.

After verification from Michael I have added a patch to the xorg-server
recipe that should fix this issue.

-- 
/Jonas

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